"I'm not one of those dudes that needs to be living in the past all day, but there's got to be a balance, and right now the balance of hip-hop is totally like this," he says, miming an unbalanced scale. "That raw grittiness, the essence of it, is totally down here. I've done uptempo club records with no samples and keyboards; I'm not mad at that. But the more I notice things getting screwed up, the more I'm like I gotta play my part in balancing the scale a little more.

And if I fail, cool. I just gotta do what my heart tells me, and right now my heart is telling me that somebody's got to be at the front of people bringing it back. There's not too many people from the boom-bap East Coast era who are even in a position to make a difference in hip-hop. I'm one of the few who anybody even has half of an eye on. A lot of my heroes wouldn't even have the opportunity to do it. It's almost like I have to do it."

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Corn syrup..they're just knowing that now????!!! Funny enough my pathophysio instructor was telling us during lecture he suspects its SUGAR and not FAT causing the problems as far as High BP, heart failure etc. That or is just genetics, strictly.

I love me some boom-bap..though being around some of the music I interact with on a daily basis you get tired of folks trying to sound like the next preem, pete rock or 9th..

The new Ghost is HOT. Ghost always brings the old school soul sound to his albums.

Yeah the Cynthia McKinney mess is getting blown up. I mean, what about the real crooks in Congress? Man this morning I was on cnn.com and they had a big photo of the Director over at Homeland Security that was caught soliciting sex from a cop posing as a 14 year old girl over the internet. A few mins later, the story gets replaced by the Cynthia McKinney story saying that she instigated the incident with the cop. Hey everyone look at the crazy black chick, don't pay any attention to the pedophile. Man they made me so mad this morning.

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